Free software on Windows (was: Re: about warez.at)

[João Miguel Neves]

On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 14:00, David Mentre wrote:
> Josef Dalcolmo <dalcolmo at vh-s.de> writes:
> 
> > My point is: it would be great if the whole GNU/Linux system would be ported 
> > to Windows: Linux as a program running in Windows. That should be possible, 
> > just like any other port to a new machine, and would immediately allow access 
> > to the whole rich world of Linux applications. As a next step, cut-and-paste 
> > between Windows and Linux could be implemented making this a wonderful 
> > solution to benefit of many free software solutions.
> 
> As far as I remembered, RMS was against porting free software on
> proprietary OS. If I remember correctly, the argument was: "Don't
> improve proprietary OS with our free software".
> 
I can understand that, but like it's normal with free software, someone
found the need to do it and cygwin was born. You can check it out at
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/. My use of cygwin was always to
overcome windows limitations when I was forced to use windows
(fortunately that doesn't happen any more and all my computer has is
free software, hopefully - sometimes debian maintainers forget to check
if the license is free...).

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						Joao Miguel Neves